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The resolution passed by 122 votes in favor, 13 against, and 41 abstentions. It was voted by 13 Arab states, and by Turkey. The most unexpected position was of Russia and China, which abstained on this occasion, indicating a possible change in the attitude of the two states that have been supporting Syria so far to the point of vetoing a UN Security Council resolution last month.
Iran, NKorea, Belarus, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Vietnam voted against the resolution. The vote of the resolution is said to have a rather symbolic value than a legal weight. The resolution does not speak of any sanctions, unlike the one Russia and China opposed last month.
The document says that the committee strongly condemns the systematic and grave human rights violations, the arbitrary executions, the excessive use of force and the prosecution and the killing of the protesters and human rights defenders.
It also demands an immediate stop of the crackdown, of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill treatment of detainees.
The German ambassador said that it was time to move the problem to the Security Council, because the council cannot “fall behind the region,” while the British foreign secretary said that the UN resolution sends a signal of united condemnation of the Syrian regime.
US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice announced that the resolution would be voted by the general assembly next month. She said that the “first-ever resolution on Syria” showed that the abuses in Syria were no longer tolerated.
A leader of the Human Rights Watch said that by siding with the people in Syria the United Nations human rights committee succeeded where the security council had failed.
Damascus called this move a declaration of war against Syria. The state-run agency SANA said that the old colonial countries have replaced the old methods with new ones using international organizations.
The resolution comes a day after the prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded the president of Syria Bashar al-Assad to step down, comparing him with dictators like Qaddafi, Ceausescu, Mussolini and Hitler.
Erdogan’s words come after the Syrian troops attacked two buses carrying Turkish citizens, causing two to die. The president of Turkey Abdullah Gul also said that Syria has reached a point of no return.
Meanwhile, the regime in Syria continues its actions in the field killing 33 people on Tuesday in the central zone of Homs, following the guidelines outlined by the president Assad in his interview for The Sunday Times, where he said that the action of the army would continue until the “armed thugs” have been silenced.
In his interview Assad made it clear that if any attack was mounted against his country, the response would trigger an international earthquake.
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